Oral Solid Dosage (OSD) Facility, Dust Containment
One of the most important and vexing problems that OSD facilities deal with is dust containment. This containment is an issue from the point where the raw materials are first opened for sampling, all the way through the manufacturing and packaging process. Almost every single operational step must deal with dust containment at some level. Some operations, like dispensing, milling, or compression create high levels of dust, while others, like wet granulation or packaging creat